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ecognition of european learning
outcomes using the example of
skilled occupations in the metals
sector
The European Credit system for Vocational Education and Training (ECVET) is
being increasingly tested in practice. This system is intended to facilitate students´
periods spent abroad as part of their training, and above all enable recognition of
learning outcomes attained abroad. Through its instruments, the LEONARDO DA
VINCI transfer of innovation project MOVET II (Modules for Vocational Education
and Training for Competences in Europe II) offers the possibility of having technical
competences – which have been acquired within the scope of professional training
abroad – recognised by the home training institution. After having acquired from
the forerunner-project MOVET initial insights and informative progress reports
concerning exemplary implementation of mobility in the training sector of mechatronics
technicians, the focus in MOVET II is on recognition and transparency of
vocational competences in skilled occupations in the metals sector.
initial situation
The development of personal and social
competences of future skilled employees
from work-related periods abroad (mobility)
is a significant factor when companies
decide to send their students abroad. The
gain in the technical expertise sector has
been somewhat neglected up to now, but it
harbours in addition enormous potential
for further developing European mobility
in the vocational training sector. It is necessary
to present these vocational-fieldspecific
technical competences trans-
parently, in order to enable a subsequent
recognition by the home training institu-
tion. MOVET II takes this as its starting
point and develops modules and recognition
instruments for the transnational
qualification of professions within the
metals sector. For the participants concerned,
there is moreover a particularly
European value in linking the elements of
ECVET to the structures of the European
Qualifications Framework (EQF). It will
therefore be specified at the beginning
of MOVET II that all modules are to be
aligned to EQF level 4. Setting the niveau
at level 4 corresponds to the categorisation
of the three to four year metals training pro-
grammes of the participating countries.
MoVeT ii – Procedural method
Two approved approaches are selected for
module development. Firstly, analysis of
the curricula is undertaken for mechatronics
technicians from Germany and
the participating partner-countries of
Denmark, Finland and Slovakia, in order
to find suitable content for transnational
modules. Secondly, the project relates to
the VQTS-model (Vocational Qualification
Transfer System) and utilises the
competence matrix for mechatronics
technicians and the matrix for mechanics
in industry analogous with the one
developed in the MOVET II project. The
VQTS-model utilises a systematic process
for the description of work-related competences
and benefits the vocational schools
from the four participating countries as a
common starting point for the development
of modules. The English-language
modules are specially conceived for trans-
national exchange and uniformly structured
according to learning outcomes. The
target group for the three-week learning
units in each case are students in their
second and third year of training. The six
qualification modules for automation
technology, which have been tested within
the scope of transnational mobility, are:
Bus systems in Copenhagen,
Bus systems in Pori,
CAD/CAM (Computer-aided design
and manufacturing) in Weiden,
CNC (Computer numerical control)
in Spišská Nová Ves,
E-Pneu (Electro-pneumatic control)
in Munich,
Hydraulics in Copenhagen and
PLC (Programmable logic control)
in Munich,
MOVET II stands out particularly by
having tested these results in practice
within the project’s duration. Students
from all four participating countries take
part in the modules and the concluding
examinations. Specially designed guide-
lines for the validation of learning outcomes,
for formulating a Memorandum of
Understanding as well as for the development
of mobility help in implementation.
The Memorandum of Understanding, recognised
as a declaration of intent between
the training institute partners, sets out
agreements on competences which are to
be achieved during the period of training
abroad, on the training programme offered
during this period, the names of contact
persons, as well as responsibilities of the
participants. The framework conditions
for mobility according to ECVET criteria
are thus transparent for all participating
partners.
recognition through transparency
A recognition by the home training institutions
of technical competences attained
abroad can only take place if the
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